Charles Eisenstein Quotes
You can't have community as an add-on to a monetized life. You have to actually need each other.
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
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You numb yourself so you're not terrified when you're on TV at 7 o'clock in the morning with Justin Bieber, who you just met a couple of days before, having to perform in front of millions of people.
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I discovered I was a monotheist... That rules out polytheism. I have also had a problem with authority, which rules out any religion with a priesthood or leader who claims to be God's representative on Earth.
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There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.
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We must be our own before we can be another's.
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Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up.
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The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.
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Nuclear accidents anywhere can affect people everywhere.
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The thing that's very puzzling to somebody who's been in Pakistan repeatedly since 1983 is lots of people live in compounds with high walls in Pakistan. I mean, that's so completely routine. In fact, you know, it would be un-routine to have the reverse.
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No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse.
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Television tends to be a more difficult medium for me to get my head around sometimes when it comes to certain things I get offered.
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I hope the young guys who are playing today realize what they have been given and will take it upon themselves to give back in return.
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The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.
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I find it odd that there's such strong objection to what is a clear way to assure that our elections are reliable and we can do a recount if there are any questions.
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I am really excited at being the face of Hotstar in AP and Telangana because it is a streaming service that I use very often, and the brand is very young and edgy.
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Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform.
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I have observed that money left without special guidance is sometimes used well and sometimes not.
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My motto is to do everything absolutely flat out and to the best of your ability.
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It's important that the director and actor have good chemistry, and not just the actors.
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All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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Nothing is so important in war as an undivided command.
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Home is where children find safety and security, where we find our identities, where citizenship starts. It usually starts with believing you're part of a community, and that is essential to having a stable home.
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Our German language has a word which in a magnificent way denotes conduct based on this spirit: doing one's duty [Pflichterfüllung]-which means serving the community instead of contenting oneself. We have a word for the basic disposition which underlies conduct of this kind in contrast to egoism and selfishness-idealism. By 'idealism' we mean only the ability of the individual to sacrifice himself for the whole, for his fellow men.
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You can't have community as an add-on to a monetized life. You have to actually need each other.
